In every feeling, look deeply. Explore without ceasing. At bottom, love is.

To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.

I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.

Blessings sometimes come through brokenness that could never come in any other way.

Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.

True growth is a process which one allows to happen rather than causes to happen.

The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play.

Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.

Zen is not about eliminating thoughts but illuminating them.

To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.

The palaces faith builds are greater than the prisons fear creates.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

There's a very apt saying in show business: "If you don't go over budget in Paris, you're either very rich or very sick. "

Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto.

I've never seen the yellow light, umm the yellow line be wrong.

It's not your body, it's not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave that to you.